In 2009, Hartnell College received a STEM grant. With this grant the math department was given an opportunity to do something special for their students. Ken took this gift and created Hartnell’s first Academic Camp called the Math Academy. Since then, the Math Academy and subsequent Science and English academic camps became the single most successful grant program at Hartnell.
The Hartnell College Math Academy (Academic Camp) and the new Reading and Writing Academy (Camp) are held each summer and winter during the semester break. Depending on funding (Title V or STEM), it is scheduled from either four or eight hours/day for the two weeks immediately before the beginning of the semester.
The primary purpose of our academic camps is to give our students a jump start on the courses that they will be enrolling in the next semester.
Only the very best teachers, tutors, and Leaders are selected to work with the academies. Our tutorial administrator then created the Lifelines Program where these same tutors and SI (Supervised Instruction) Leaders continue to support their Academy students during the semester that follows each Academy.
Our statistics show that almost half of the Math Academy students re-assess into a higher level of math then what they originally intended to enroll in. And those same students are more likely to succeed in these higher-level classes than if they had not attended the Academy and had taken their intended lower-level math course.
